"If You Have Your Health, You Have Everything."

For me, my late mother's oft-repeated words became the embodiment of the mission of the FLCCC.

“If you have your health, you have everything.”

My mother said those words to my three siblings and me more times than I can remember over the course of our lives. Understandably, those words meant little to me as a very young child. “What? That’s grown-up stuff. What about playing outside? Our dollies? Going on a treasure hunt with flashlights in the basement?”

But her wise words suddenly began to resonate as I entered my pre-teen years. That was when I began junior high school. On the first day, I learned that a boy in my English class had Blue Baby Syndrome — brought on by a serious heart defect. I recall asking my father, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician, about the boy’s condition the evening after that first day in junior high. He explained that the boy’s heart was not able to pump enough oxygen through his body, making his lips, tongue, nails, ears, and skin tone appear quite bluish.

“So will he die?” I asked my dad.

“Well, probably not immediately,” Dad answered, “But he will die sooner than others in his age group if they cannot find a way to mend his heart.”

That shook me awake. Wide awake. From that moment on, my mother’s words took on undeniable —and indeed urgent— new meaning. I suddenly became aware of how right she was. Good health is not guaranteed; and I began to worry (way too much for a young person) about all of the calamities that could befall anyone of any age at anytime. If it happened to a junior high school kid, well…what about me? My siblings? My family? My friends? Helping my father to make photo slides for the speaking presentations he gave at medical conferences didn’t help. It just gave me more fodder for worry. Lung cancer, throat cancer, esophageal cancer, emphysema, COPD…I fretted over it all.

During that same year, a neighbor of ours—a beautiful young woman in her late 30s — became ill with breast cancer. So little was known about treating the disease at the time, and she deteriorated quickly. As her health declined, my mother would frequently bring her meals and spend time with her at her bedside and on the phone late at night when she just needed to talk.

She died within 8 months. 

The boy in my class died before our senior year in high school.

“If you have your health, you have everything.” 

I’ve thought of my mother’s words so many times through my adult years—and imparted them frequently to my own children in the hopes that they would care for their safety and their bodies in ways that would guard their good health. 

But for the past 3 1/2 years, the echoes of her words in her long ago voice have been drumming in my head with unrelenting persistence. That’s when, in March of 2020, I became one of the ten founding team members of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). Suddenly, the lives of billons of people across the globe were threatened by COVID—an unknown pathogen with little to no solid treatment guidance.

That’s when the “IF” in my mother’s words became real — and frightening — to all.

“IF you have your health…”

April, 2020—A screenshot of the very first Zoom meeting of the FLCCC—even BEFORE it was the FLCCC. Top row, L-R: Dr. Howard Kornfeld, Dr. Jose Iglesias, Betsy Ashton (PR Consultant). Middle row, L-R: Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Joe Varon, Dr. Pierre Kory. Third row, L-R: Dr. Keith Berkowitz, Dr. Umberto Meduri, Joyce Kamen (PR Consultant) & Dr. Fred Wagshul.

Right from the jump, the FLCCC was well positioned to do something about it. I was so deeply thankful that I had quite improbably been given the gift of having a front row seat to witness first hand what our brilliant critical care team of doctors was doing to save lives. It certainly made the “IF” much less alarming to me knowing that our exceedingly experienced doctors were deeply (and urgently) researching a way out of critical COVID illness. With Dr. Marik (the most highly published critical care physician in the nation) leading the way, his treatment “cocktail” was saving the overwhelming majority of his critically ill ICU COVID patients. With the further research collaboration of Drs. Pierre Kory, G. Umberto Meduri, Joseph Varon and Jose Iglesias, that “cocktail” became the FLCCC’s MATH+ Protocol. MATH+ was achieving a mortality rate of 4-8% in the hospitals where it was being used. Non-MATH+ hospitals had mortality rates of 18-75%.

Let that sink in.

Tragically, few listened to the FLCCC’s knowledgable counsel, so their plaintive pleas to adopt the protocol went largely unheeded. Millions died unnecessarily. Why? Well, we quickly realized that because there was a COVID vaccine in the works to $ELL down the road, the FLCCC needed to be silenced (censored in the media and on social networks) in order for Big Pharma and allied corporate and media interests to rack up record profit$. Who needs lifesaving protocols when the shots were on the way? (Well, let’s start with naming the millions who died not knowing there was an effective, available treatment that would have likely saved their lives.)

KNOW THIS: At the start of COVID and throughout the pandemic, our team received and read countless letters and messages from people around the world—desperately seeking ways to survive COVID. And the FLCCC responded (to all who would listen), saving hundreds of thousands of lives with safe, scientifically proven, inexpensive, globally available protocols—largely using repurposed drugs; including the most powerfully effective, yet highly vilified drug, ivermectin. The same occurred when the pleas for help began to pour in from people suffering with debilitating symptoms of long COVID. More exceptionally efficacious, safe protocols. And then more as a deluge of emails, messages and social media posts began to come in from those needing help after being injured by the COVID vaccines.

In every era of the pandemic and its lingering reverberations, the FLCCC’s answer to the question, “Am I going to get better?” was always “We are doing everything in our power to make certain that you do.”

Now, in COVID’s aftermath, the FLCCC is leading a momentous global healthcare revolution; working to ensure the full restoration of the doctor-patient relationship and the ability of providers to make decisions with their patients on what therapeutics are best for them to achieve optimal health. Without government interference. Without mandates. Without threats of defamation or job loss for non-compliance with governmental guidance.

At the same time, our expansive team of doctors, nurses and scientific researchers are having tremendous success finding new and powerful ways to treat diseases like cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases, reproductive disorders, sepsis, mental health disorders, pediatric illnesses and more by using repurposed drugs and innovative treatment protocols.

This Thanksgiving, I will inhabit in my heart my deepest gratitude for both our FLCCC founding physicians and our legions of FLCCC Alliance providers around the world who, through the months of censorship, misinformation, and defamation, still courageously embody the ethos of my mother’s words — determined to make them real for all patients everywhere:

“If you have your health, dear patient, you have everything. Now, let’s get you there— because you deserve to have everything.”

May God bless the bold, brave humanitarian work of the FLCCC.

Happy — and  above all HEALTHY — Thanksgiving to all.

Warmly,

Joyce